Make the Complex Understandable: Show, Don’t Tell

Learning Solutions Magazine article about how to make complex information more concise, understandable, memorable, and fun.

What Guild Research Has to Say about e-Learning Trends

 Archive of Patti’s 12/9/2010 Guild Online Forum presentation on trends appearing over the past year of Guild Research including the most-frequently-adopted e-Learning approaches, tools, and and technologies.

The MOST Crucial Learning Activities and Media

eLearning Guild Learning Solutions article that describes a simple, logical process that gets you to fairly obvious conclusions about what learning activities are most critical in an instructional situation. The result is instruction that are more likely to get learners where they really need to be.

Getting Started in e-Learning: Learning 2.0

eLearning Guild Getting Started Report, November 2010

Increasingly, people use social media to support work and learning. Most course-based learning is subject to limited content and time. This contrasts with the need for an ongoing, current, and relevant stream of information, and ways for people to find what they need and make sense of it quickly.

Full report available from www.elearningguild.com with any paid membership (Join!).

Getting Started in e-Learning: Rapid e-Learning

eLearning Guild Getting Started Report, April 2010

This report discusses the state of rapid e-learning and describes Guild member use of rapid e-learning tools.

Full report available from www.elearningguild.com with any paid membership (Join!).

The Value of Multimedia in Learning

Adobe Design Center Think Tank, 2008

This article describes the benefits and challenges of using multimedia for learning.

Design Strategies for Online and Blended Learning

From The eLearning Guild’s Handbook of e-Learning Strategy, 2007

This chapter discusses how to make decisions about design approaches when building instruction.

Complex Interventions for Complex Problems: Expanded Context for e-Learning

eLearning Developers’ Journal